Looks like the big new NEJM paper was ghostwritten, something acknowledged in the text
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Does it often get acknowledged in the text of the article? I couldn't believe that they literally say "this was ghostwritten" in their methods
This isn’t that uncommon in big NEJM published trials. To be honest you probably see it more in NEJM than anywhere else, either BC they insist on it or because they publish more big industry run studies than most topical journals would.
I have plenty of issues with this paper, but I’ve always found “it was ghostwritten by a medical writer” to be one of the things that bothers me less than everyone else. I get why it raises some dander, but...
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